Arts & Entertainment
The latest arts and entertainment highlights, previews, reviews, music and film features and opinion pieces from The Skinny writers.
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FilmHara-kiri: Death of a Samurai
After revitalising the samurai picture with the thrilling 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's new movie Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai is a change of pace, and a di... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Film
Northern Lights: A Nation on Film
Scotland’s first ever mass participation film project, Northern Lights, is looking for vignettes about Scottish people's day-to-day lives. The Skinny spoke to filmmaker Nick Higgins, the driving force behind the venture, to find out more Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
MusicNick Waterhouse – Time's All Gone
Although only 25, San Francisco’s Nick Waterhouse excavates the roots of American popular music with an unnervingly obsessive attention to detail. In... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
Music
French Wives: The Inbetweeners
Fifteen months in the making, French Wives release their debut Dream of the Inbetween later this month. “I’m sure the thought’s crossed all our minds already,” ponders frontman Stuart Dougan. “‘What if people don’t like it…?’” Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
MusicRichard Hawley – Standing At The Sky's Edge
Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly su... Read more »| 01 May 2012 -
MusicOne Little Plane – Into the Trees
The second LP from One Little Plane, aka Chicago singer-songwriter Kathryn Bint, is a collection of drowsy, backwoods folk/Americana, underpinned by gentle... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012
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Art
The Making of Us @ Tramway
A collaboration between theatre director Graham Eatough and artist Graham Fagan, working alongside director of photography Michael McDonough, The Making of U... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
Richard Knox & Frédéric D. Oberland – The Rustle of the Stars
Envisioned as a sonic voyage through the vast and barren reaches of the North Pole, this collaborative album between multi-instrumentalist Fréd&eacu... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
FilmGoodbye First Love
Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love covers the well-worn ground of teenage romance, but it does so with a sensitivity and honesty that makes the subj... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Film
Film Event Highlights – May 2012
Highlights of film events happening in May across Scotland Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Film
American Pie: Reunion
All hail the class of 99, the birth of the MILF and the induction of pie fornication into pop culture. It has been 13 years since the first slice of American... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
Gringo Star – Count Yer Lucky Stars
With track titles including Esmerelda and Mexican Coma, those new to Gringo Star’s schtick might expect their moniker to directly reference their sou... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
Two Wings – Love's Spring
Too often, ‘folk’ is used as a rigid template to which musicians adhere far too strictly, rehashing the past rather than creating something new. ... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Music
The Metal Column – May 2012
As festival season gets underway, we find that many of our favourite bands are preoccupied in distant lands, leaving us here in the dirt, so to speak, and wi... Read more »| 30 Apr 2012 -
Books
Ewan Morrison: Interview From a Mall
Ewan Morrison is the acclaimed author of a trilogy of novels – Swung, Distance and Menage – about alternative sexuality. And so naturally he's followed these up with an examination of the way we shop. Let's go to a mall with him and see what happens. Read more »| 30 Apr 2012